Road Cycling“It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.” -- Ernest Hemingway

__________________one general tip for when the exact hub cone is not readily available. discovered that the curvature of the bearing surface on the shimano 600 was a pretty good "skeleton key" for many applications. it would sometimes require a small change in ball size to make everything come out correctly.

My wife and I haven't left the house for over 3 weeks. We've been on each other's nerves now and then, but nothing too extreme yet. Probably because she's never ridden the tandem I bought her 36 years ago.

They were bought and the old brain trust left. The new bikes were technically good, but the fits became much taller and shorter. They’ve slowly been reverting to classic geometry, but there were years when most of their bikes had really relaxed geometry. And people who had been riding them for the old geometry were
upset.

Relaxed geometry and tall HTs. All the race geometry was gone and I couldn't fit a Cervelo without a -17 stem, which looks silly. I think the Specialized Roubaix came out around this time as well. My R3SL is the old geometry and fits perfectly.

Those medical ships are incredible. I've been on the Mercy and have hats from both, although the Comfort's hat is cooler.

I lived in Dubai as a kid. The UAE has always been a major US base and the US presence was the only reason we didn't get invaded during the Persian Gulf War. As a kid growing up, there were always frigates, destroyers, aircraft carriers, and medical ships in the docks.

We would have US servicemen over during holidays - Easter, Thanksgiving, Christmas. My mom would feed them and my dad managed the housing complex we lived at, so they would all go down to the beach and use the pool. One year for Thanksgiving, we had the doctors over.

So good.

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In other news, to effect quick passes of other cyclists out this morning, I did dial it up to 400w to pass several times. It doesn't actually feel like much of anything for that duration. Not sure what that guy was on about.

I crashed my R3SL in 2015, which happened to coincide with the return of the old Cervelo geometry. I wanted this bike as my crash replacement. Cervelo customer service loved my old R3SL and convinced me not to do it. He said some of them had been working there a long time and believed the early bikes were their best.

I was also running out of time with my wife. I fixed the R3SL, bought a NIB 2008 SLC-SL from R&A, returned it, and then bought the TMR01. I got my aero bike.

In other news, to effect quick passes of other cyclists out this morning, I did dial it up to 400w to pass several times. It doesn't actually feel like much of anything for that duration. Not sure what that guy was on about.

I crashed my R3SL in 2015, which happened to coincide with the return of the old Cervelo geometry. I wanted this bike as my crash replacement. Cervelo customer service loved my old R3SL and convinced me not to do it. He said some of them had been working there a long time and believed the early bikes were their best.

I was also running out of time with my wife. I fixed the R3SL, bought a NIB 2008 SLC-SL from R&A, returned it, and then bought the TMR01. I got my aero bike.

BMC makes a great bike. Coach John has a TM01, and that thing is way cool. The engineering is something.

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Originally Posted by Bah Humbug

In other news, to effect quick passes of other cyclists out this morning, I did dial it up to 400w to pass several times. It doesn't actually feel like much of anything for that duration. Not sure what that guy was on about.

My stock portfolio thanks you and I bet you're not as well stocked as you think. You probably need 3-4 more trips this week.

Nope. We're well stocked. Even with produce atm.

__________________one general tip for when the exact hub cone is not readily available. discovered that the curvature of the bearing surface on the shimano 600 was a pretty good "skeleton key" for many applications. it would sometimes require a small change in ball size to make everything come out correctly.

In other consumerism news, I ordered a product that just shipped from a New Jersey warehouse. It should take about three days to get here, but I'm considering leaving it in the box for an extra day just for kicks.

They were bought and the old brain trust left. The new bikes were technically good, but the fits became much taller and shorter. They’ve slowly been reverting to classic geometry, but there were years when most of their bikes had really relaxed geometry. And people who had been riding them for the old geometry were
upset.

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Originally Posted by sbxx1985

Relaxed geometry and tall HTs. All the race geometry was gone and I couldn't fit a Cervelo without a -17 stem, which looks silly. I think the Specialized Roubaix came out around this time as well. My R3SL is the old geometry and fits perfectly.

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Originally Posted by sbxx1985

I crashed my R3SL in 2015, which happened to coincide with the return of the old Cervelo geometry. I wanted this bike as my crash replacement. Cervelo customer service loved my old R3SL and convinced me not to do it. He said some of them had been working there a long time and believed the early bikes were their best.

I was also running out of time with my wife. I fixed the R3SL, bought a NIB 2008 SLC-SL from R&A, returned it, and then bought the TMR01. I got my aero bike.

During the month of March, I have given up sugar, gluten, and dairy. And I have joined the ranks of the intermittent fasters. My energy level is through the roof. And my focus too. What with not having coffee or breakfast, my mornings are much more productive. I might just get caught up on my long list of projects during this isolation period.

__________________one general tip for when the exact hub cone is not readily available. discovered that the curvature of the bearing surface on the shimano 600 was a pretty good "skeleton key" for many applications. it would sometimes require a small change in ball size to make everything come out correctly.

In other news, we have had clouds two mornings in a row. Could it mean there is rain in our future?

__________________one general tip for when the exact hub cone is not readily available. discovered that the curvature of the bearing surface on the shimano 600 was a pretty good "skeleton key" for many applications. it would sometimes require a small change in ball size to make everything come out correctly.

I went to SPDs on everything I own after a tandem tour in New Mexico in 2002. A week of walking duck footed off the bike in the desert cured me of my vanity.

I'm moving that way as well. Right now I've just got the bog standard two-sided Shimano MTB pedals on a couple of bikes, but I think the Trek is going to be the first recipient of some nicer single-sided SPD pedals with more of a platform.

I'll probably keep the regular road pedals on the roadie for the foreseeable future, as it's a bike that I clip in once and don't get off the bike until I'm back at home. Plus I've still got a pair of road shoes and cleats with lots of life left in them, and using one of those 3 bolt -> 2 bolt cleat adapters doesn't really give me any advantage over what I've got now.